OIA Football
No. 13 Leilehua turns back Radford for fifth straight win


ScoringLive staff
October 19, 2024, 9:28am

  

Fri, Oct 18, 2024 @ Leilehua [ 7:30 pm ]

Radford

21

Leilehua

28

Final 1 2 3 4 T
Radford (5-4-0) 0 7 7 721
Leilehua (10-4-0) 7 7 0 1428
Bennett Strobel 149 yd 2 TD
Afi Togafau 262 yd 3 TD
Talon Tarpley 79 yd 1 TD
Michael Robinson 140 yd 2 TD



Leilehua will be in the driver's seat for next week's final weekend of the regular season. 

The 13th-ranked Mules held on for a 28-21 win over Radford on homecoming night at Hugh Yoshida Stadium Friday night. 

Chaystin Senas made a pair of pivotal fourth-quarter plays to help Leilehua to its fifth consecutive win. His 54-yard punt return for touchdown with 4:52 to play gave his team a 28-14 lead.

After the Rams cut it to a one-score game with Zeke Schulz's 4-yard touchdown pass from Afi Togafau, they got the ball back with 51 seconds to play. Radford drove to the Leilehua 21-yard line in the closing seconds, but Senas came up with a game-sealing interception of Togafau on the final play of the game. 

Leilehua took a 14-7 lead in the first half on a pair of Bennett Strobel touchdown passes — 26 yards to Talon Tarpley and 19 yards to Kyin Rivera-Galbraith — sandwiched around a 25-yard Togafau-to-Michael-Robinson TD pass. 

Togafau and Robinson connected for a 62-yard scoring strike to even the score at 14 about two minutes into the second half. 

Togafau finished 22-of-38 passing for 262 yards with two interceptions. Robinson caught five passes for 140 yards in the loss. 

Strobel completed 12 of his 22 passes for 149 yards and was intercepted twice. 

Kevin Burke led the Mules defensive with 10 total tackles, two sacks and one interception. 

Leilehua, which holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Moanalua, can clinch the top seed in the four-team Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I tournament with a win at Pearl City Friday. 

Radford closes out the regular season against Waianae Friday. 




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